I can see it in Danny's eyes, you being so bright and inquisitive makes teaching fun! There's no better feeling than knowing your little bits of insight will carry on.
Good info on using that acid. A bit extra info about it people might want to know. The fumes from use and even idle evaporation are bad. They will rust any metal in the vicinity. Even as much as ten feet around the bottle. Best keep the container outside or double bagged if stored inside.
@@willysnowman I did some small parts for solder out doors and brought in to solder only to fine that he newly built offroad buggy frame was completely rusty along with everything in the shop. be carefull
I used muriatic acid many years ago as an experiment to clean the rust off my old headers before painting. It worked beautifully. I used no gloves and no breathing protection though (I was young). It didn't smell great, but the only side effect was my right eye was twitching for a couple of days afterwards LOL.
By the gods, who ever weld that trailer in the first place have no welding/fabrication skills at all🤣 Good job Faye! Thanks for Danny all help! Cheers!🍺🇫🇮
You'd think they'd have tried some test beads first. The tube welds don't look half bad, but the fenders are atrocious! Likely used a cheap welder that didn't have a lower current setting. Sheet metal is easy to burn through.
Thanks Faye. Wow! The previous welder must have been blindfolded. I always hated working with muriatic acid - dissolves blue jeans, coveralls, and everything else really well! Thanks for another video.
Lots of good advise from Danny! I used muriatic acid on my truck's recovery shackle to strip the galvanize before powder coating. Besides smoking, the shackle became warm to the touch!
@@FayeHadley Exothermic reaction. You can cause the same thing just by mixing the acid and water in the wrong way. "Add acid to water like you ought to"
06/03 Was having a bad day and flair up today too much pain and no energy thanks to my nerve disease, but with all that said, I enjoyed this video as always you and Danny cheer me up with your energy and spirits, love the Faye tag stamp and finger pointing at it lol at the lower right of screen!! What a hoot! Informative and encouraging thank you!!!
AWWW 😕 I'm so sorry about your health issues!! That sort of stuff can be so frustrating! I hope you're feeling better, and I'm glad we could bring some joy to your day!
@@FayeHadley you always do with your infectious laugh, thank you, and thank you for your words and heart. I still work on cars it just takes a lot, (ton lol) of hours, slower now and have to take multiple breaks and some days I just can't, but I get back at!
Excellent safety lesson on muriatic acid, known in the chemical industry as hydrochloric acid, HCl. It is dangerous and very corrosive to metals, but at 20% solution with water can be used to clean old tile and grout and at 10% can clean dirty or stained concrete. When diluting acid, always add the water to the container first and add the acid to the water. If you add water to strong concentrated acid it generates a lot more heat and will melt the container, break it, and the solution will boil violently splashing acid all over the place, including all over you. Please encourage Danny to wear safety glasses when using his barrel of muriatic acid! You never know when a drop of any chemical is going to go flying and hit your eye. I speak as someone who has gotten a single drop of a corrosive chemical in an eye, and I was wearing my safety glasses at the time. It plopped over the top of my left lens somehow. My eye is fine. I immediately washed it out of 20 min with water then reported to medical and they drove me to an ophthalmologist. He examined my eye for damage and found a small amount of damage that would heal in a week by itself. I had to use eye drops and wear an eye patch, but it healed nicely and has not effected my vision in the long run. But, it hurt like hell and they gave me some pretty strong pain pills to use for a few days until it healed.
meanwhile treatment for grinder dust, when you are old, will cost you 10k a month. You made the smarter move using chemicals then going at it like a psycho baboon with a spinning rock. the HCl is easier to manage, and less harmful in the long run. You need to design your tools not to splash and stuff though (this means paying extra for beefy containers that have pouring features ETC).
If I were you, I’d get new trailer fenders, cut off the old ones, then weld tabs to the trailer frame and bolt the fenders to the tabs. That way they’re removable should one get damaged or whatever. Just my opinion though. Do whatever you think is right I’m sure it’ll turn out great. Cheers 🍻
I've got muriatic acid on hand that I was using for something else. I should try i next time I need to weld galvanized. I always grind off the coating first, and weld outside. BTW, I'd recommend spray-on rocker-guard on the inside of the fenders. That'll save you from having the paint flake off from gravel spray, and rotting the fenders out from the inside.
Excellent video Faye I would’ve got some little pieces of channel cut them fenders off and then bend some metal and then screw them on so it’ll be a lot stronger case you have to remove it and then the other metal I would cut out and put stronger bars across it thought of trying to re-weld the existing metal that somebody didn’t know how to weld at the time good video keep up the good work can’t wait to see you next one you’re awesome thank you
Hey Faye, The trailer is really coming along nicely Funny Danny mentioned it we had a built-in pool growing up every year we drained it and brushed it down with Muriatic acid this thing was huge 36×18 9 feet deep held 27,000 gallon, it was a lot of work and then every five years or so we cleaned it and repainted it. Can’t wait to see how it comes out have a great one as always🐔🐔🐔👍
Looking forward to your next video. I didn't know about harmful gasses from welding galvanized steel. Those old welds were horrible, it's good to see your new welds. The old welds were so bad, that they looked like my work.
Faye, this looks like a project you will enjoy and at the same time work on expanding your skills. I like how you are always wanting to learn more. As a tech for many years - I have my ASE Master Auto, my Master Engine Machinist, and the L1 - I really enjoy watching you as you build your skills library. I do the same and am currently adding wood working to my Mechanic, welding, fabricating and body working skills. I never stop wanting to learn and I see the same in you. Makes me feel good that my trade is some good hands of the younger generation. Good luck on this trailer and I can't wait to see what you do with it!!
@@FayeHadley Do you work on Old Subaru's, like the engine department, head gasket and rear main seal? where I live, because of my CP, they want to take advantage, of it!!😟🤓
FAYE You have a good Project . I am a Dallas Texas Boy , Mechanic . I like doing Projects like that .You will save a lot of Funds . The last trailer I restored I used plastic decking . You will need more cross braces . :-))
Just stumbled on your channel. cool content. That trailer has more buggers than a kindergarten class. looks like its in good hands. Can't wait for the next vid.
Over the years I have bought and sold a lot of used trailers. So I was impressed that you bought a trailer for $100 and it even had fenders on it. You managed to tow it home without having the tires come apart or the wheelbearings freezing up. OK so was that $100 the asking price or did you negotiate that down. Also what was the cost to have the trailer sandblasted. Never had anything sandblasted before always thought about it. Thanks for the informative video
There are lots of automotive uses for muriatic acid. I use it to clean corroded wiring, crusted up heater cores and corroded battery terminals. It's not exactly "by the book", but here in the salt belt it proves pretty effective at instantly removing corrosion from pretty much anything.
yeah and it won't kill your lungs like grinder dust. Easy to control HCl vapor. Hard to determine WTF grinder dust is gonna do and where it will end up and what will kick it up and how to trap it. Total nightmare problem!
I almost feel like some trailer fenders from like Tractor Supply would be an easier way to go. lol But still interesting. I bought a house and there were 3 big glass jugs of this stuff in the basement. My friend wouldn't go down there, she got a bad vibe like it was haunted. We wondered if someone used it to dispose of someone. haha
Nice video. I use quite a few acids and caustics for cleaning. Some that work great for rust, don't work good for oil/sludge and vice versa. Simple Green aviation over night is great for loosening sludge and is very safe and non hazourdous, it's expensive but safe on precious parts like Alluminium, some parts need a couple of days in the tank with some agitation here and there to speed it up. You can use a Hot caustic cleaner e.g from Atotech (Uniclean x40), or Macdermid Enprep 114, but they require heating to high temperatures which is expensive and lots of fumes, and only for metal (no alluminium), - saves on time though. Benco B17 (Methylene Chloride / Formic Acid / Phenol mix) is great for oil/paint, but extremely hazardous and risky stuff, treat it as liquid fire or you are in big trouble, it evaporates quick if not contained. Works great. Then yes Hydrochloric (Muriatic acid) great for removing rust, just don't let it sit there for too long. Often some of the rust that hasn't come off is very loose and comes off with a very light scrubbing with a scotchbrite sponge, easy. Just use a water rinse after the acid to avoid flash rusting and dry it immediately. Blasting if done thorough will remove most/all galvanizing (zinc), but often certain areas might not be done thoroughly so some Hydrochloric acid can help remove residual bits of zinc as a safe measure. As others mentioned, not good to be using Acids or Caustics in a enclosed environment on the regular, fumes will float and land on metals, e.g nearby parts, or eventually if you use it all the time, rust the roller doors and metal roofing, it happens so slowly you won't notice it until it takes effect. I did recall Faye you said you could use Muriatic acid to clean bolts. Yes you can, but as Hydrochloric (Muriatic) acid reacts with Zinc and Chromium (when you see it fizzing), its stripping the Chromium (yellow or silver finish on bolts), then the underlying zinc off, The bolts will readily rust afterwards unless you get them zinc plated again which is costly. Best is to clean bolts just with degreaser or immerse in gasoline or whatever works to get oil off.
Miller makes respirators that fit under a welding mask with filters for galvanized coating. They were about $60 for the respirator and $20 for the filters. I used to weld steel every day with heavy, hot-dipped glavanized coating and never got sick. Just another option.
Ya, that trailer is actually not welded at all, it's just "weld spitted".. Who built that shoud have taken at least some time in practice before, if he wasn't practical.. The wiring job also was a disaster, should have some nice holes with grommets where it goes through metal components. It looks like they just thrown together some junk laying around... Before reusing wires, check them for peel or damage, otherwise you will always have some unexplained troubles.. =) Keep on, looking forward to see it coming redone. Muriatic acid is a bad ass thing, I've used it to clean all the profiles for my carport/crane/service bay... It worked wonderfully. Cheers, mama Faye!
I think Stevie Wonder was trying a welding class on that trailer that day. We had a "Crank-Top" Lincoln stick welder on the farm and my step dad & his dad, neither knew how to weld so by age 10 (The Oldest) I was the resident welder on broken equipment! Yes, crank-top? Anyone ever seen one? It had a 10" crank on top with a knob, a vertical pointer for amperage, and would simply lift the primary side of the transformer up or down, controlling amps by mutual induction. The more of it lowered into the secondary part of the transformer, the more amps you got. I have seen a guy re-wire one and turn it into a battery charger. Just added more press-in diodes used in the Delco 10S alternator to create a more controlled (-) negative and (+) positive. You could buy them at farm auctions for under $10 to $5 dollars. Most had a broken wire inside from moving. The old tar-soaked insulation over copper! Serious! DK, Omaha.
You should do a video on dry ice for freezing bearings or liquid nitrogen I use them a lot working on John Deere and caterpillar equipment but also have used it on car and truck bearings
That was such a sketchy trailer wen you brought it home. Total confidence you can rebuild it....make it faster, stonger....(Six million dollar man reference).
My wife and I just finished a homemade utility trailer, in our state to register all we had to do was make up a serial number and give them the trailers dimensions and that was it.
From the looks of the trailer at the 6 minute mark in the video the trailer probably started life as boat trailer. Since the type of boat that that trailer would carry would weigh less than 300 pounds it would be structurally sound for that purpose. It may not survive putting a six hundred pound engine and transmission on it. The big weak point is the round tongue and side frame. Right angles make steel much more rigid for the same weight. 2" x 3" steel rectangle for the tongue and some 4"x2" open channel for the side rails will really beef up the load carrying capacity. The channel also gives a flat surface for the cross braces and spring mounts to mount to. You can also tuck the wiring up into it to protect it while still having access for repair modification. If you're mounting a winch and adding tie down points it is a lot easier to deal with a flat level surface than trying to match a round one.
I worked in a commercial AC manufacturing plant as a welder building the large galvanized AC bases. We welded galvanized steel all day outside with no respirator and no it doesn't kill you immediately like everyone on UA-cam says but it certainly isn't good for you in the long haul. If you have to weld it just do it outside and wear a mask and you're fine.
You certainly know welding better than I do, but considering the thin, ragged nature of some of those broken welds, I would have suggested overlaying some kind of splice plates made of maybe 1/8" steel on them and welding those, instead of trying to weld that raggedy metal directly. But maybe you did do that? Anyway, I'm confident you'll work it out so that it holds up great. Have fun!
When you do the welding like here, actual welding is 10% of the job, makin parts to fit and cleaning them for welding is 90%. As you have good welding machine you can cheat on preparation (as i also tend to do). But if you prepare your welding and figure out how to make them then you can do all your welding by yourself on your future projects, and be proud of yourself, if you like to weld.
Since it looks like you're not going to replace those fenders I think maybe you should grind down all the welds as flat as possible and then use some strapping to cap them and reinforce them. Weld the strapping to clean solid metal on the frame and fenders. The amount of rusted out metal on those fenders doesn't look like you'll get good solid welds on the edges. It would really help to reinforce and secure the fenders.
Muriatic acid is also good for removing rust stains from concrete driveways and sidewalks. Just remember to neutralize the surface with baking soda and water when you’re finished removing the rust.
Should've run flux core for welding wire. I don't know the exact science behind it but flux core interacts with the galvanizing & actually makes for some decent welds. I do a lot of work on boat trailers for neighbors & kinda discovered it by accident. I just make sure I stay outside & upwind from the fumes but otherwise never had any problems. A dampening spring on the drum, that axle came out of something OLD! The bones are good, just needs your touch.
My welder is a flux-core. I've been considering upgrading to MIG (which can do both, of course), but I've always ground away where I needed to weld and didn't know that the gasses interact differently with the galvanizing.
@@BlackEpyon typically I give the areas a shot with brake clean just to degrease & knock off any salt (I'm in Cleetustown, FL lol), cut a V on the ends & just go to town on it. Probably the only instance where an el-cheapo HF welder will do a decent job. I think the gas created by the burning galvanizing creates a sort of shielding gas on its own. Dont get me wrong, you won't be laying dimes but structurally it's sound.
@@charliehcrew1957 yessir, i know that, so I let that stuff dry thoroughly & do it all outside. No different than Freon in an open flame, I know it's bad stuff. Been doing it this way for years, not pushing up daisies yet. I'm a small 1 man show, no osha breathing down my back yet lol. #FJB
I just used 25% viniegar/water mix to de rust parts. Its much safer and easier although you need 3 to 7 days to soak the parts so there is no scrubbing required. I restored a 58 Bel Air and every part that fit in a 50 gallon plastic drum got soaked in vinegar water mix for a week or so before i repainted them. No sandblasting needed.
That acid has 101 uses. Cleaning all kinds of things. Metal you want to weld or solder. (we used it in a rad shop all the time), your toilet, and yes, it can be used on concrete. It is commonly used (diluted) on concrete to "etch it" before painting. Also good for cleaning electrical contacts and fixing sending units from that crappy old gas tank. In all cases, it must be rinsed and neutralized when you are done.
I found a video on cleaning toilets with this and was shocked when I tried it myself. I was curious what else this might be used for and found this video. I plan on using phosphoric acid on the underneath of my truck mixed with hand gel from another video I found.
Some of that is in such rough shape! Hopefully you don't have to cut out any sections but I think you're going to need to. How did this thing not fall apart on the road before? lol
The not yet patented safety contact lenses. I've been searching for a pair without the automatic eyelash magnet. Danny must've found his on eBay motors. 😆
Very informative tutorial on using muriatic acid. Hydrofluoric acid works very well but it's extremely expensive and using a Alkali soap such as lye soap. What I'm not familiar with and I guess I could do a little bit of research is should I still use baking soda to neutralize everything? But the lye soap, should do it? Stay young
So how do you deal with the flash rust? Maybe you do your welding and the do another quick acid dip and neutralize dip. Then send it off to be galvanised again... I had something sandblasted once and the shop asked me if I wanted it undercoated so that's a way forward post-weld. Sorry I'm kind of obsessive. And does
Are you going to grind down all of the welds? I think it would look really nice, completely smooth. But, at the same time, the question is, "how far do you want to take this trailer?" lol
I can see it in Danny's eyes, you being so bright and inquisitive makes teaching fun! There's no better feeling than knowing your little bits of insight will carry on.
Good info on using that acid. A bit extra info about it people might want to know. The fumes from use and even idle evaporation are bad. They will rust any metal in the vicinity. Even as much as ten feet around the bottle. Best keep the container outside or double bagged if stored inside.
They will rust even if the bottle is closed.
@@willysnowman I did some small parts for solder out doors and brought in to solder only to fine that he newly built offroad buggy frame was completely rusty along with everything in the shop. be carefull
The hype is real with any Faye premier!
Haha oh yay!! This is gonna be such a good one, I'm so excited!!!
I like what you do Faye very happy person in your wick thank you for shareing the things you do thank you
I used muriatic acid many years ago as an experiment to clean the rust off my old headers before painting. It worked beautifully. I used no gloves and no breathing protection though (I was young). It didn't smell great, but the only side effect was my right eye was twitching for a couple of days afterwards LOL.
By the gods, who ever weld that trailer in the first place have no welding/fabrication skills at all🤣 Good job Faye! Thanks for Danny all help! Cheers!🍺🇫🇮
You'd think they'd have tried some test beads first. The tube welds don't look half bad, but the fenders are atrocious! Likely used a cheap welder that didn't have a lower current setting. Sheet metal is easy to burn through.
Nice to see a lady with ambition in the mechanical field. We need more ladies like you. Good video. Thanks !
Thanks Faye. Wow! The previous welder must have been blindfolded. I always hated working with muriatic acid - dissolves
blue jeans, coveralls, and everything else really well! Thanks for another video.
Faye's giving reaper some love! Should be a good trailer when you're done!
Danny is pretty cool down to earth. Be a cool shop teacher.
Lots of good advise from Danny! I used muriatic acid on my truck's recovery shackle to strip the galvanize before powder coating. Besides smoking, the shackle became warm to the touch!
YES!!! I experienced that too! So crazy!
@@FayeHadley Exothermic reaction. You can cause the same thing just by mixing the acid and water in the wrong way. "Add acid to water like you ought to"
Love using Muriatic acid for mill scale removal, also a weed sprayer comes in handy for neutralizing the acid!
Danny always seems to have great information. Cool!
It was good to see you wearing you acid resistant skin while working.
This is some crappy trailer fun! Awaiting Pt3.
06/03
Was having a bad day and flair up today too much pain and no energy thanks to my nerve disease, but with all that said, I enjoyed this video as always you and Danny cheer me up with your energy and spirits, love the Faye tag stamp and finger pointing at it lol at the lower right of screen!! What a hoot! Informative and encouraging thank you!!!
AWWW 😕 I'm so sorry about your health issues!! That sort of stuff can be so frustrating! I hope you're feeling better, and I'm glad we could bring some joy to your day!
@@FayeHadley you always do with your infectious laugh, thank you, and thank you for your words and heart. I still work on cars it just takes a lot, (ton lol) of hours, slower now and have to take multiple breaks and some days I just can't, but I get back at!
Excellent safety lesson on muriatic acid, known in the chemical industry as hydrochloric acid, HCl. It is dangerous and very corrosive to metals, but at 20% solution with water can be used to clean old tile and grout and at 10% can clean dirty or stained concrete. When diluting acid, always add the water to the container first and add the acid to the water. If you add water to strong concentrated acid it generates a lot more heat and will melt the container, break it, and the solution will boil violently splashing acid all over the place, including all over you.
Please encourage Danny to wear safety glasses when using his barrel of muriatic acid! You never know when a drop of any chemical is going to go flying and hit your eye. I speak as someone who has gotten a single drop of a corrosive chemical in an eye, and I was wearing my safety glasses at the time. It plopped over the top of my left lens somehow. My eye is fine. I immediately washed it out of 20 min with water then reported to medical and they drove me to an ophthalmologist. He examined my eye for damage and found a small amount of damage that would heal in a week by itself. I had to use eye drops and wear an eye patch, but it healed nicely and has not effected my vision in the long run. But, it hurt like hell and they gave me some pretty strong pain pills to use for a few days until it healed.
meanwhile treatment for grinder dust, when you are old, will cost you 10k a month. You made the smarter move using chemicals then going at it like a psycho baboon with a spinning rock. the HCl is easier to manage, and less harmful in the long run. You need to design your tools not to splash and stuff though (this means paying extra for beefy containers that have pouring features ETC).
thats crazy how it just melts the crap away awsome video faye
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And I thought I was the only one who would buy an trailer. Good luck with it!
Haha there are more crazies out here!
If I were you, I’d get new trailer fenders, cut off the old ones, then weld tabs to the trailer frame and bolt the fenders to the tabs. That way they’re removable should one get damaged or whatever. Just my opinion though. Do whatever you think is right I’m sure it’ll turn out great. Cheers 🍻
You and Danny definitely my favourite found youtubers! Very informative and knowledgeable! Not to mention talk about wife material 😂
Wow, thank you!
This was the best demonstration of this technique I've ever seen. Excellent video
Muriatic acid works great to remove bearing material from a crankshaft that had a seized rod bearing. It’s awesome stuff when used properly.
That stencil was sick
Faaaayye I don't have that you should do a show on telegram. I got a channel to but nobody likes it. So what eve
That's going to be a sweet trailer when you're finished.. looking forward to your videos..
Thanks 👍!!!!!!
Hello Faye and Danny very informative episode Wishing you both well Take Care
Thanks so much!!!!!!!
Man you arent lying !! Im aware of Muriatic for sure but never thought about this application. Bead blasting or blasting leaves residue
Faye you are an amazing human being, I wish I had your energy.
I've got muriatic acid on hand that I was using for something else. I should try i next time I need to weld galvanized. I always grind off the coating first, and weld outside.
BTW, I'd recommend spray-on rocker-guard on the inside of the fenders. That'll save you from having the paint flake off from gravel spray, and rotting the fenders out from the inside.
Great video Faye.
Danny’s old school cool.
Built not bought,that’s the way I roll.
😎🍺👍🇦🇺
Excellent video Faye I would’ve got some little pieces of channel cut them fenders off and then bend some metal and then screw them on so it’ll be a lot stronger case you have to remove it and then the other metal I would cut out and put stronger bars across it thought of trying to re-weld the existing metal that somebody didn’t know how to weld at the time good video keep up the good work can’t wait to see you next one you’re awesome thank you
Great video... can't believe ya didn't show that oil pan once it was finished! Looking forward to the next one!
Danny posted it on his Instagram!!! It looks incredible! It's painted now!
Hey Faye, The trailer is really coming along nicely Funny Danny mentioned it we had a built-in pool growing up every year we drained it and brushed it down with Muriatic acid this thing was huge 36×18 9 feet deep held 27,000 gallon, it was a lot of work and then every five years or so we cleaned it and repainted it. Can’t wait to see how it comes out have a great one as always🐔🐔🐔👍
Looking forward to your next video. I didn't know about harmful gasses from welding galvanized steel. Those old welds were horrible, it's good to see your new welds. The old welds were so bad, that they looked like my work.
Cool informational video on this I did not know about it, until now. Thanks for the info.
Glad it was helpful!
Really enjoy ur stuff Faye,was little worried when u were using the muratic acid in shorts. Like the crappy trailer👍
I am glad i subscribed to this channel
Awww thank you so much!
Faye, this looks like a project you will enjoy and at the same time work on expanding your skills. I like how you are always wanting to learn more. As a tech for many years - I have my ASE Master Auto, my Master Engine Machinist, and the L1 - I really enjoy watching you as you build your skills library. I do the same and am currently adding wood working to my Mechanic, welding, fabricating and body working skills. I never stop wanting to learn and I see the same in you. Makes me feel good that my trade is some good hands of the younger generation.
Good luck on this trailer and I can't wait to see what you do with it!!
Lookie that pretty Supra in the background of the acid bathing part :)
:))
Your energy is INSPIRING !
Another informational Cool video, from a one Cool lady, with even cooler Chickens!!! Bawk bawk!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@FayeHadley Do you work on Old Subaru's, like the engine department, head gasket and rear main seal? where I live, because of my CP, they want to take advantage, of it!!😟🤓
Great job Faye, you're on your way to a nice & safe trailer for not much money investment!
Those mortar tubs are so so handy
Bought a bottle today and used it neat. Thick clouds of brown smoke ensues. Didn't know you were supposed to use it diluted lol.
Nice! Good timing on this video too! I also have a crappy trailer restoration!
WHAAAAT NO WAAYYYYYY!!!!!!!! I'll check it out!
@@FayeHadley Oh no video! Not yet! Hahaha I also realized I wasn't getting your notifications so I turned them on . 🤦♀️
FAYE You have a good Project . I am a Dallas Texas Boy , Mechanic .
I like doing Projects like that .You will save a lot of Funds . The last
trailer I restored I used plastic decking . You will need more cross
braces . :-))
Faye is so cute. Love the L-body behind Danny.
Just stumbled on your channel. cool content. That trailer has more buggers than a kindergarten class. looks like its in good hands. Can't wait for the next vid.
Over the years I have bought and sold a lot of used trailers. So I was impressed that you bought a trailer for $100 and it even had fenders on it. You managed to tow it home without having the tires come apart or the wheelbearings freezing up. OK so was that $100 the asking price or did you negotiate that down. Also what was the cost to have the trailer sandblasted. Never had anything sandblasted before always thought about it. Thanks for the informative video
So cute and likeable and does amazing work I don't trust any mechanics around my area to do as good as faye
There are lots of automotive uses for muriatic acid. I use it to clean corroded wiring, crusted up heater cores and corroded battery terminals. It's not exactly "by the book", but here in the salt belt it proves pretty effective at instantly removing corrosion from pretty much anything.
Great tips!!!
You can use vinegar in most cases too. It can just take longer, depending on what you have.
yeah and it won't kill your lungs like grinder dust. Easy to control HCl vapor. Hard to determine WTF grinder dust is gonna do and where it will end up and what will kick it up and how to trap it. Total nightmare problem!
Nice! I have a ton of acid for our swimming pool.
I almost feel like some trailer fenders from like Tractor Supply would be an easier way to go. lol But still interesting. I bought a house and there were 3 big glass jugs of this stuff in the basement. My friend wouldn't go down there, she got a bad vibe like it was haunted. We wondered if someone used it to dispose of someone. haha
COULD BE!!!
*note to self
Nice video. I use quite a few acids and caustics for cleaning. Some that work great for rust, don't work good for oil/sludge and vice versa. Simple Green aviation over night is great for loosening sludge and is very safe and non hazourdous, it's expensive but safe on precious parts like Alluminium, some parts need a couple of days in the tank with some agitation here and there to speed it up. You can use a Hot caustic cleaner e.g from Atotech (Uniclean x40), or Macdermid Enprep 114, but they require heating to high temperatures which is expensive and lots of fumes, and only for metal (no alluminium), - saves on time though.
Benco B17 (Methylene Chloride / Formic Acid / Phenol mix) is great for oil/paint, but extremely hazardous and risky stuff, treat it as liquid fire or you are in big trouble, it evaporates quick if not contained. Works great.
Then yes Hydrochloric (Muriatic acid) great for removing rust, just don't let it sit there for too long. Often some of the rust that hasn't come off is very loose and comes off with a very light scrubbing with a scotchbrite sponge, easy. Just use a water rinse after the acid to avoid flash rusting and dry it immediately.
Blasting if done thorough will remove most/all galvanizing (zinc), but often certain areas might not be done thoroughly so some Hydrochloric acid can help remove residual bits of zinc as a safe measure.
As others mentioned, not good to be using Acids or Caustics in a enclosed environment on the regular, fumes will float and land on metals, e.g nearby parts, or eventually if you use it all the time, rust the roller doors and metal roofing, it happens so slowly you won't notice it until it takes effect.
I did recall Faye you said you could use Muriatic acid to clean bolts. Yes you can, but as Hydrochloric (Muriatic) acid reacts with Zinc and Chromium (when you see it fizzing), its stripping the Chromium (yellow or silver finish on bolts), then the underlying zinc off, The bolts will readily rust afterwards unless you get them zinc plated again which is costly. Best is to clean bolts just with degreaser or immerse in gasoline or whatever works to get oil off.
That’s a hell of an intro!!!!
Miller makes respirators that fit under a welding mask with filters for galvanized coating. They were about $60 for the respirator and $20 for the filters. I used to weld steel every day with heavy, hot-dipped glavanized coating and never got sick. Just another option.
I'll have to grab one. I regularly use a respirator for working with pesticides, but the normal half-mask respirator doesn't fit under the helmet.
New to your channel! I can't wait for part 3
Great Job done Faye 👍
Your fans tell ya, but you are wicked cool.
Ya, that trailer is actually not welded at all, it's just "weld spitted".. Who built that shoud have taken at least some time in practice before, if he wasn't practical.. The wiring job also was a disaster, should have some nice holes with grommets where it goes through metal components. It looks like they just thrown together some junk laying around... Before reusing wires, check them for peel or damage, otherwise you will always have some unexplained troubles.. =) Keep on, looking forward to see it coming redone. Muriatic acid is a bad ass thing, I've used it to clean all the profiles for my carport/crane/service bay... It worked wonderfully. Cheers, mama Faye!
Thank you!!! Yeah, it made me feel better about myself seeing those welds for SURE HAHA! I'm excited to see where I can take this thing!!
I think Stevie Wonder was trying a welding class on that trailer that day.
We had a "Crank-Top" Lincoln stick welder on the farm and my step dad & his dad, neither knew how to weld so by age 10 (The Oldest) I was the resident welder on broken equipment!
Yes, crank-top? Anyone ever seen one? It had a 10" crank on top with a knob, a vertical pointer for amperage, and would simply lift the primary side of the transformer up or down, controlling amps by mutual induction. The more of it lowered into the secondary part of the transformer, the more amps you got. I have seen a guy re-wire one and turn it into a battery charger. Just added more press-in diodes used in the Delco 10S alternator to create a more controlled (-) negative and (+) positive. You could buy them at farm auctions for under $10 to $5 dollars. Most had a broken wire inside from moving. The old tar-soaked insulation over copper! Serious! DK, Omaha.
Glad to see you got back something that resembles a trailer from the blaster.👍
As always some more awesome tips and tricks
Man i want a barrel of that magical stuff!! And I'm pretty sure that those are the cutest chicks that i have ever seen lol.
You should do a video on dry ice for freezing bearings or liquid nitrogen I use them a lot working on John Deere and caterpillar equipment but also have used it on car and truck bearings
Thanks Faye
That was such a sketchy trailer wen you brought it home. Total confidence you can rebuild it....make it faster, stonger....(Six million dollar man reference).
My wife and I just finished a homemade utility trailer, in our state to register all we had to do was make up a serial number and give them the trailers dimensions and that was it.
I want to know how Faye can still look cute in a mask that makes me look like a cross between Darth Vader and Jabba the Hut!
Simpn bro
I wish I could ask her out , but I would keep her a secret from the public prying eyes 👀 😢 😅
Must say, you look absolutely gorgeous in that thumbnail.
From the looks of the trailer at the 6 minute mark in the video the trailer probably started life as boat trailer. Since the type of boat that that trailer would carry would weigh less than 300 pounds it would be structurally sound for that purpose. It may not survive putting a six hundred pound engine and transmission on it.
The big weak point is the round tongue and side frame. Right angles make steel much more rigid for the same weight. 2" x 3" steel rectangle for the tongue and some 4"x2" open channel for the side rails will really beef up the load carrying capacity. The channel also gives a flat surface for the cross braces and spring mounts to mount to. You can also tuck the wiring up into it to protect it while still having access for repair modification.
If you're mounting a winch and adding tie down points it is a lot easier to deal with a flat level surface than trying to match a round one.
I worked in a commercial AC manufacturing plant as a welder building the large galvanized AC bases. We welded galvanized steel all day outside with no respirator and no it doesn't kill you immediately like everyone on UA-cam says but it certainly isn't good for you in the long haul. If you have to weld it just do it outside and wear a mask and you're fine.
Sound's like your employer doesn't give a shit about their workers. I'm shocked... No I'm not.
I use phosphoric acid. Removes the galvanized coating and protects against flash rust (converts to iron phosphate). Works well for me.
This should be titled, "How To Do Disclaimers" :P I loved the notice, "*** NOT MY WELDING ***", especially. lol, there were some gaps...
You certainly know welding better than I do, but considering the thin, ragged nature of some of those broken welds, I would have suggested overlaying some kind of splice plates made of maybe 1/8" steel on them and welding those, instead of trying to weld that raggedy metal directly. But maybe you did do that? Anyway, I'm confident you'll work it out so that it holds up great. Have fun!
When you do the welding like here, actual welding is 10% of the job, makin parts to fit and cleaning them for welding is 90%. As you have good welding machine you can cheat on preparation (as i also tend to do). But if you prepare your welding and figure out how to make them then you can do
all your welding by yourself on your future projects, and be proud of yourself, if you like to weld.
Since it looks like you're not going to replace those fenders I think maybe you should grind down all the welds as flat as possible and then use some strapping to cap them and reinforce them. Weld the strapping to clean solid metal on the frame and fenders. The amount of rusted out metal on those fenders doesn't look like you'll get good solid welds on the edges. It would really help to reinforce and secure the fenders.
Excellent video, thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Muriatic acid is also good for removing rust stains from concrete driveways and sidewalks. Just remember to neutralize the surface with baking soda and water when you’re finished removing the rust.
Should've run flux core for welding wire. I don't know the exact science behind it but flux core interacts with the galvanizing & actually makes for some decent welds. I do a lot of work on boat trailers for neighbors & kinda discovered it by accident. I just make sure I stay outside & upwind from the fumes but otherwise never had any problems.
A dampening spring on the drum, that axle came out of something OLD! The bones are good, just needs your touch.
My welder is a flux-core. I've been considering upgrading to MIG (which can do both, of course), but I've always ground away where I needed to weld and didn't know that the gasses interact differently with the galvanizing.
@@BlackEpyon typically I give the areas a shot with brake clean just to degrease & knock off any salt (I'm in Cleetustown, FL lol), cut a V on the ends & just go to town on it. Probably the only instance where an el-cheapo HF welder will do a decent job. I think the gas created by the burning galvanizing creates a sort of shielding gas on its own. Dont get me wrong, you won't be laying dimes but structurally it's sound.
@@acemobile9806 Using brake cleaner before welding can create phosgene gas, it is a deadly nerve agent.
@@charliehcrew1957 yessir, i know that, so I let that stuff dry thoroughly & do it all outside. No different than Freon in an open flame, I know it's bad stuff. Been doing it this way for years, not pushing up daisies yet. I'm a small 1 man show, no osha breathing down my back yet lol. #FJB
I just used 25% viniegar/water mix to de rust parts. Its much safer and easier although you need 3 to 7 days to soak the parts so there is no scrubbing required. I restored a 58 Bel Air and every part that fit in a 50 gallon plastic drum got soaked in vinegar water mix for a week or so before i repainted them. No sandblasting needed.
Awesum..comin along👍👍😍
That acid has 101 uses. Cleaning all kinds of things. Metal you want to weld or solder. (we used it in a rad shop all the time), your toilet, and yes, it can be used on concrete. It is commonly used (diluted) on concrete to "etch it" before painting. Also good for cleaning electrical contacts and fixing sending units from that crappy old gas tank. In all cases, it must be rinsed and neutralized when you are done.
I found a video on cleaning toilets with this and was shocked when I tried it myself. I was curious what else this might be used for and found this video. I plan on using phosphoric acid on the underneath of my truck mixed with hand gel from another video I found.
I dug the muriatic acid bongo vibe.
Sick dodge Omni
Some of that is in such rough shape! Hopefully you don't have to cut out any sections but I think you're going to need to. How did this thing not fall apart on the road before? lol
I have no clue!!!
The not yet patented safety contact lenses. I've been searching for a pair without the automatic eyelash magnet. Danny must've found his on eBay motors. 😆
Very informative tutorial on using muriatic acid. Hydrofluoric acid works very well but it's extremely expensive and using a Alkali soap such as lye soap. What I'm not familiar with and I guess I could do a little bit of research is should I still use baking soda to neutralize everything? But the lye soap, should do it? Stay young
“Not my welding!” Lol
Looking good
So how do you deal with the flash rust?
Maybe you do your welding and the do another quick acid dip and neutralize dip. Then send it off to be galvanised again...
I had something sandblasted once and the shop asked me if I wanted it undercoated so that's a way forward post-weld.
Sorry I'm kind of obsessive.
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FYI, some of that bubbling is flammable hydrogen gas being released from the acid reacting with the zinc. Just something to keep in mind
Great video , could rusty chrome be cleaned up with this stuff ?? Thanks
How is there only 2 waiting and 15 comments, there should be more like 117K waiting
Great video !
Glad you enjoyed it!!!!!!!!!!
Awesome vid.
What kind of brush do you use? I don’t want to use anything thats will disolve prior to completion of the job.
I heard white vinegar works wonders too. Less evasive than muriatic acid, but far cheaper. Leave over night as opposed to a few hours.
Makes a half-decent herbicide too, if you wanna keep things non-toxic.
Are you going to grind down all of the welds? I think it would look really nice, completely smooth. But, at the same time, the question is, "how far do you want to take this trailer?" lol
i didnt know that worked on galvanizing! but ive used it to eat aluminum off of cylinder walls